elle

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See also: -elle, Elle, ellē, êlle, and élle

Corsican

Etymology

From Latin illae, feminine plural form of ille (that), from Old Latin olle (that). Cognates include Italian elle (they) and French elles (they).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛlːe/
  • Hyphenation: el‧le

Pronoun

elle f

  1. they (feminine)
  2. them (disjunctive)

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References

Danish

Noun

elle c

  1. indefinite plural of el

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old French ele, from Latin illa, feminine of ille.

Pronoun

elle f (third-person singular, plural elles, accusative la, dative lui, emphatic elle, possessive determiner son)

  1. she
    Je crois qu’elle est partie.
    I think she left.
  2. it (feminine gender third-person singular subject pronoun)
    Voilà ma voiture. Elle a cinq ans.
    That's my car. It is five years old.
  3. disjunctive form of elle; her; à elle = hers
    C’est à elle.
    It's hers.
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Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

elle m (plural elles)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter L.

Further reading

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin el (the name of the letter L).

Pronunciation

Noun

elle f (invariable)

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter L.
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Etymology 2

From Latin illae, nominative feminine plural of ille.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈel.le/
  • Rhymes: -elle
  • Hyphenation: él‧le

Pronoun

elle f pl

  1. (archaic) plural of ella
    Synonyms: esse, loro
Derived terms

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Latvian

 elle on Latvian Wikipedia
Elle

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch elle or Middle Low German helle (compare German Hölle, English hell). It is mentioned already in 16th-century literature and 17th-century dictionaries.

Noun

elle f (5th declension)

  1. (theology) hell (in many religions, the place where some or all souls go after death)
  2. (Christianity) hell (where the souls of sinners go after death to be punished by devils)
    nonākt ellēto end up in hell
    elles krāsnsthe furnace of hell
    elles mocībasthe torments of hell
  3. (figuratively) infernal (very intense, tough, terrible, horrible)
    elles karstumsinfernal heat
    elles troksnisinfernal noise
    elles darbsinfernal, terrible, toughwork
    elles mokasinfernal, horrible suffering

Declension

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Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “elle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Middle English

Noun

elle

  1. Alternative form of elne (ell)

Middle French

Pronoun

elle f

  1. she

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈeːlle/

Verb

ēlle

  1. inflection of eallit:
    1. first-person dual present indicative
    2. third-person plural past indicative

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

elle (present tense ellar, past tense ella, past participle ella, passive infinitive ellast, present participle ellande, imperative elle/ell)

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Portuguese

Pronoun

elle m (feminine ella, plural elles, feminine plural ellas)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ele

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia es

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /ˈeʝe/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) /ˈeʎe/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /ˈeʃe/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /ˈeʒe/

 
  • (most of Spain and Latin America) Rhymes: -eʝe
  • (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains) Rhymes: -eʎe
  • (Buenos Aires and environs) Rhymes: -eʃe
  • (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Rhymes: -eʒe

  • Syllabification: e‧lle

Noun

elle f (plural elles)

  1. name of the digraph Ll/ll, previously considered a letter
    Synonym: doble ele

Pronoun

elle gender-neutral (plural elles)

  1. (gender-neutral, neologism) they, them (singular); a gender-neutral singular third-person personal pronoun
    elle es muy alte
    they are very tall
    • 2020, Alex Iantaffi, Meg-John Barker, translated by Raquel García Rojas, Cómo entender tu género: una guía práctica para explorar quién eres, Dos Bigotes, →ISBN:
      Meg-John ha notado que rara vez corrige a alguien si esa persona utiliza los pronombres incorrectos para referirse a elle en la presentación al comienzo de una conferencia.
      Meg-John has noticed that they rarely correct someone if that person uses the wrong pronouns to refer to them in the presentation at the beginning of a lecture.

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Further reading

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish elle, the Spanish name of the letter LL/ll.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: el‧le
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔelje/,

Noun

elle (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜎ᜔ᜌᜒ)

  1. (historical) The name of the Latin-script letter LL/ll, in the Abecedario.

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Turkish

Etymology

el +‎ le (from el and ile)

Adverb

elle

  1. by hand, manually

Verb

elle

  1. second-person singular imperative of ellemek